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Scholarly Communications Crisis: Setting the Context Dr Paul Ayris,

Scholarly Communications Crisis: Setting the Context Dr Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, UCL e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk. The Issues (1). Finance IPR SPARC and SPARC Europe Public Library of Science ELSSS Digital Preservation. The Issues (2). Advocacy campaigns

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Scholarly Communications Crisis: Setting the Context Dr Paul Ayris,

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  1. Scholarly Communications Crisis: Setting the Context Dr Paul Ayris, Director of Library Services, UCL e-mail: p.ayris@ucl.ac.uk

  2. The Issues (1) • Finance • IPR • SPARC and SPARC Europe • Public Library of Science • ELSSS • Digital Preservation

  3. The Issues (2) • Advocacy campaigns • Open Archiving Initiative (OAI) • International Scholarly Communications Alliance (ISCA) • Manifesto for action!

  4. Finance (1)

  5. Finance (2) • Commercial publishers are predominantly interested in profit margins • ‘We can talk about anything but profit’ – Derk Haank • Librarians have not sold their case well in the past! • Dialogue starting but difficult

  6. Finance (3) • What model best suits a CURL library? • ‘All you can eat deal’ • Paper bundled with electronic access? • Tiered model? Now to be tested by CURL with Blackwells Science • VAT a big problem for a move to electronic only delivery

  7. IPR (1) • The model: • Academics/researchers are paid to produce research • IPR is handed over to commercial publishers • Universities buy it back in journal subscriptions

  8. IPR (2) • Universities coming to a resolution about local IPR arrangements – which are not identical • CURL has composed a questionnaire on IPR for the Russell Group Vice-Chancellors to map local arrangements

  9. IPR (3) • CURL is trying to lobby the Funding Councils • Welcome Trust is discussing the question • CURL is trying to get statements about free access to IPR written into the Letters of Grant from Funding Agencies

  10. SPARC • Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition • http://www/arl.org/sparc/ • European branch now started • http://www.sparceurope.org/ • Produces cost-effective e-journals • Some Editorial Boards have moved wholesale to SPARC

  11. PLoS • Public Library of Science • http://www.publiclibraryofscience.org/ • Campaign by academics and researchers • Current publishing model is questioned • Output will be new e-journals

  12. ELSSS (1) • Electronic Society for Social Scientists • Started by Dr Manfredi La Manna, University of St Andrews • See http//www.elsss.org/

  13. ELSSS (2) • First ELSSS journal, Review of Economic Theory, to appear in 2003 • international Editorial Board • appearing in e- and paper formats • CURL has a seat on the ELSSS Trust

  14. Digital Preservation (1) • Digital Preservation is a principal constraint in the new e-economy • No-one is doing it systematically • Reed Elsevier is in discussion with international libraries over trusted repositories • CURL CEDARS project a good exemplar

  15. Digital Preservation (2) • Digital Preservation Coalition launched at the Houses of Parliament • See http://www.dpconline.org/ • A principal aim is to foster debate • 3-year Business Plan forthcoming by March 2003

  16. Advocacy campaigns (1) • Librarians are on the whole converted! • Sir Brian Follett says the escalating costs in periodical subscriptions are marginal to a university • Academics see periodical inflation rates as a problem only for the Library

  17. Advocacy campaigns (2) • CURL has devoted Jan.-April 2002 to a national advocacy campaign • Second round now planned for 2003 • We are trying to reach academics and Subject/Liaison Librarians • You have an enormously important local role to play! • Partnership between Library and academics is vital

  18. Open Archiving • Open Archive Initiative • Pre-print servers to archive papers • Subject-based or institution-based? • What is the role of refereeing?

  19. OAI: SHERPA (1) • CURL-led project for the community • Bid submitted to JISC • Outputs • Collaboration with AHDS over long-term digital storage • Service servers set up at CURL exemplar sites

  20. OAI: SHERPA (2) • Nottingham (lead); White Rose partnership (Leeds, Sheffield, York); British Library; Glasgow, Edinburgh; Oxford; AHDS • 7 other sites to be brought in • Architecture will enable all CURL institutions and others to join within the 3 years of the project • See http://www.SHERPA.AC.UK/

  21. ISCA (1) • International Scholarly Communications Alliance • A CURL initiative comprising library consortia in US, Canada, UK and Ireland, the rest of Europe, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and New Zealand • Global problems require global solutions

  22. ISCA (2) • Press release launched in early 2002; covered in the UK by the THES • A joint work plan being prepared in spring 2003 • Details at: http://www.caul.edu.au/cisc/isca/

  23. Manifesto for Action (1) • Train all Subject/Liaison Librarians in the issues • How is that best done in your own institution? • Establish a web presence • Cf. Glasgow’s excellent website at http://www.gla.ac.uk/createchange/

  24. Manifesto for Action (2) • Is Scholarly Communication the correct title for this?? • Launch local Advocacy campaigns to engage academics, subject by subject • Make sure that the Research Support Libraries Group takes the issue seriously

  25. Manifesto for Action (3) • Support local discussions on IPR • Support Open archiving in your own site • Consider joining the CURL SHERPA project

  26. Questions and Discussion • And now over to you…

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